Which of these conspiracies do you believe?

O'Dee wrote:

This sort of stuff is really extraordinary. I mean, the utter ignorance. Whenever this stuff comes up, I always note the vague use of the pronoun "They" with respect to the alleged conspirators.

Dr David Grimes of the University of Oxford did a statistical analysis of conspiracy theories and analysed the probability of a conspiracy being either deliberately uncovered by a whistle-blower or inadvertently revealed by a bungler. Basically the more people involved in the conspiracy the quicker it is likely to fall apart. For the US moon landings to be a hoax about 411,000 people would need to be in on the conspiracy and it would likely fall apart within four years. Inversely, for a conspiracy to last 10 years before being blown less than 1000 people need to be in on the act.

Link to the paper:

Link to a summary:

I am an American Indian.

maninthemiddle wrote:

Anyone who even remotely assumes 6 and 9 as "probable" or "probably false" should immediately be questioned about their intellectual and analytical abilities.

Flat earth theory is so stupid that it can't be even classified as conspiracy. It's in the same box with illiteracy because only absolute illiterates could come up and believe a theory like that. It lacks absolutely no motivation and there is absolutely no gain for anyone from this theory.

Try telling that to "legit question." Lol. What I can't figure out is why the Flat Earth Society continues to grow with new membership. And these aren't low IQ HS dropouts but many of their members are college graduates with some having advanced degrees.

Most perplexing: Are we losing our common sense & logic in this country or are these just a bunch of insecure people looking for attention?

This is very weird wrote:

maninthemiddle wrote:

Anyone who even remotely assumes 6 and 9 as "probable" or "probably false" should immediately be questioned about their intellectual and analytical abilities.

Flat earth theory is so stupid that it can't be even classified as conspiracy. It's in the same box with illiteracy because only absolute illiterates could come up and believe a theory like that. It lacks absolutely no motivation and there is absolutely no gain for anyone from this theory.

Try telling that to "legit question." Lol. What I can't figure out is why the Flat Earth Society continues to grow with new membership. And these aren't low IQ HS dropouts but many of their members are college graduates with some having advanced degrees.

Most perplexing: Are we losing our common sense & logic in this country or are these just a bunch of insecure people looking for attention?

No, these are low IQ people.

Real. Things wrote:

Adding to the list:

Stanford’s track is short

Separate but similar: my 5k PR was set on a short course.

Hey hey whoa!!!!!!

Put down the racing flats.

This has to be one of the biggest misconceptions with the moon landing conspiracy.

Why would all 411,000 people have to be in on it? Or be privy to all the information?

Even people in the control tower, could just be receiving a signal from next door without realising. Likewise, the manufacturers and engineers don’t know whether their parts actually went to the moon. They merely made them, and that was that.

The number of people who can say with certainty it was a hoax is more likely

Less than 50***

The majority of “spherical deniers” are intellectuals who enjoy watching morans attempt to prove in an apoplectic fury what is plainly obvious. Flat Earth theory is the greatest troll job ever because it is funny as heck and preceded the internet and social media.

Humans Changing Climate is a troll job that has snagged the greatest amount of people but it hasn’t crossed over to hilarious yet since most of those people are too ignorant to see the big picture.

The average person is an idiot wrote:

This is very weird wrote:

Try telling that to "legit question." Lol. What I can't figure out is why the Flat Earth Society continues to grow with new membership. And these aren't low IQ HS dropouts but many of their members are college graduates with some having advanced degrees.

Most perplexing: Are we losing our common sense & logic in this country or are these just a bunch of insecure people looking for attention?

No, these are low IQ people.

YouTube? ?

Oswald's bullets would have to have done an elaborate mid-air ballet to hit JFK the way they did.

There was a shooter on the grassy knoll.

The JFK hit was an inside coup d'etat, likely rogue elements from national security circles.

There continues to be a huge investment of the establishment in backing the lone gunman idea.

The tin foil runs deep in here and we at Reynolds Group Holdings thank you.

Michael franzese says he 100% believes the mob orchestrated the JFK assassination. Good enough for me

ConspiracyBoy47746 wrote:

1. 9/11 was an inside job

2. Moon landings were faked

3. Jeffrey Epstein was murdered

4. Princess Diana was bumped off by the British Royal Family

5. JFK - anything other than the official story IE. LHO acting alone

6. Flat Earth

7. Aliens at Roswell - Area 51

8. Sandy Hook crisis acting from “parents

9. Chemtrails

10. Holocaust deniers

Feel free to add more

3 and 5 definitely have more than 50% certainty to be true... The rest is there just for shits and giggles, esp. 2,6,7 and 10... If people believe any of those are conspiracy theories, than I weep for humanity... But hey, that's why I keep coming back to Letsrun, to get a good laugh;)

OP, I commend you. Every whacko consipiracy being played out at the same time, in the same thread. Genius.

Vjkt wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

I can't stand war criminal Obama, but you don't have to be born in the US to be a "natural born citizen." It means only that you're a citizen by birthright, from having a citizen parent, no matter where it was.

This was clarified by the US supreme court in the 1790's, not that intelligent people need a court to tell the difference between "natural" and "native."

This. Ted Cruz was born in Canada to an American mother and Cuban father yet the birther issue did not come up with Trump. No one ever claimed Obama's mother was not American.

John McCain was born in Panama.

I believe that Obama was born in Hawaii but sold himself as being born in Kenya because it sounded more exotic. Obama's official publicist was advertising that Obama was born in Kenya up until 2007.

This is very weird wrote:

maninthemiddle wrote:

Anyone who even remotely assumes 6 and 9 as "probable" or "probably false" should immediately be questioned about their intellectual and analytical abilities.

Flat earth theory is so stupid that it can't be even classified as conspiracy. It's in the same box with illiteracy because only absolute illiterates could come up and believe a theory like that. It lacks absolutely no motivation and there is absolutely no gain for anyone from this theory.

Try telling that to "legit question." Lol. What I can't figure out is why the Flat Earth Society continues to grow with new membership. And these aren't low IQ HS dropouts but many of their members are college graduates with some having advanced degrees.

Most perplexing: Are we losing our common sense & logic in this country or are these just a bunch of insecure people looking for attention?

This is why you are completely clueless about FE. It has ZERO to do with the Flat Earth Society.

Research Flat Earth and try to explain the following:

Lack of physically measurable curvature

Objects being seen past the curve calculations all over the world, with the use of high powered cameras, lasers & infrared

The nature of water ALWAYS seeks and maintains its own level. Bodies of water do not curve.

Reflections of the moon or sun on water are never curved

Mass attracting mass not being able to be recreated

Lack of detectable spin

No north to south circumnavigation of the Earth ever done

Hahahahahaha